Carrier improvements
- Calculate lineup deviation (degrees left/right)
- Position for touchdown added (for more accurate lineup and glideslope deviation checks)
- LSO position and Tower position added (for views)
- Better logic for controlling the FLOLS
- Added ability to start on a specific course (works better
with the launcher if the carrier starts on a recovery course
when positioning in air for recovery (approach)
- Support for normal, tower, LSO views (via controls/view-index)
- Aircraft can define offset for FLOLS in sim/model/reference-offset-{xyz}
Added the ability to find the nearest carrier to use as a tower
Rework of the tower position so that it updates frequently to support moving towers.
TODO: Need to review how to better implement/integrate 'sub-views' i.e. ai/models/carrier[]/controls/view-index which is actually a sub index for the tower view.
Overview:
Previously Flightgear always used a single osgViewer::Viewer(), which
inherits from both osgViewer::ViewerBase and osgViewer::View, giving a
single view window.
If CompositeViewer is enabled, we instead use a osgViewer::CompositeViewer
which contains a list of osgViewer::View's. Each of these View's can have
its own eye position, so we can have multiple different views of the same
scene.
Enable at runtime with: --composite-viewer=1
Changes to allow use of osgViewer::CompositeViewer:
Previously FGRenderer had this method:
osgViewer::Viewer* getViewer();
This has been replaced by these two new methods:
osgViewer::ViewerBase* getViewerBase();
osgViewer::View* getView();
If CompositeViewer is not enabled (the default), the actual runtime state
is unchanged, and getViewerBase() and getView() both return a pointer to
the singleton osgViewer::Viewer() object.
If CompositeViewer is enabled, getViewerBase() returns a pointer to a
singleton osgViewer::CompositeViewer object, and getView() returns a
pointer to the first osgViewer::View in the osgViewer::CompositeViewer's
list.
The other significant change to FGRenderer() is the new method:
osg::FrameStamp* getFrameStamp()
If CompositeViewer is not enabled, this simply returns
getView()->getFrameStamp(). If CompositeViewer is enabled it returns
getViewerBase()->getFrameStamp(). It is important that code that previously
called getView()->getFrameStamp() is changed to use the new method, because
when CompositeViewer is enabled individual osgViewer::View's appear to
return an osg::FrameStamp with zero frame number).
All code that uses FGRenderer has been patched up to use the new methods so
that things work as before regardless of whether CompositeViewer is enabled
or not.
We make FGRenderer::update() call SviewUpdate() which updates any extra
views.
Extra view windows:
If CompositeViewer is enabled, one can create top-level extra view windows
by calling SviewCreate(). See src/Viewer/sview.hxx for details.
Each extra view window has its own simgear::compositor::Compositor
instance.
Currently SviewCreate() can create extra view windows that clone the
current view, or view from one point to another (e.g. from one multiplayer
aircraft to the user's aircradt) or keep two aircraft in view, one at a
fixed distance in the foreground.
SviewCreate() can be called from nasal via new nasal commands "view-clone",
"view-last-pair", "view-last-pair-double" and "view-push". Associated
changes to fgdata gives access to these via the View menu. The "view-push"
command tags the current view for later use by "view-last-pair" and
"view-last-pair-double".
Extra view windows created by SviewCreate() use a new view system called
Sview, which allows views to be constructed at runtime instead of being
hard-coded in *-set.xml files. This is work in progress and views aren't
all fully implemented. For example Pilot view gets things slightly wrong
with large roll values, Tower View AGL is not implemented, and we don't
implement damping. See top of src/Viewer/sview.cxx for an overview.
OpenSceneGraph-3.4 issues:
OSG-3.4's event handling seems to be incorrect with CompositeViewer -
events get sent for the wrong window which causes issues with resize and
closing. It doesn't seem to be possible to work around this, so closing
extra view windows can end up closing the main window for example.
OSG-3.6 seems to fix the problems.
We warn if CompositeViewer is enabled and OpenSceneGraph is 3.4.
- Removed the ENABLE_COMPOSITOR CMake flag.
- Removed /sim/version/compositor-support.
- Removed miscellaneous branching to check if the Compositor is enabled.
- Removed custom resource loader since Compositor Effects are now located in $FG_ROOT/Effects.
- Removed splash screen warning.
- Only use the Compositor versions of CameraGroup and FGRenderer.
- Fix redout/blackout not appearing under certain circumstances.
Allow add-ons to define an FGData subdir, and support multiple —data=
command line arguments, to avoid the need to modify FG_ROOT (which might
be read-only). Allow additional data paths to be either higher or lower
priority than FG_ROOT, so that add-ons cannot replace files in FG_ROOT.
Was being shown before locale was selected, so always using default
translation. Fixed by deferring the dialog, and also added an assert
for debug builds, if trying to access translated string too early.
- pass texture cache control properties to simgear
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/cache-enabled
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/compress-transparent
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/compress-solid
- /sim/rendering/texture-cache/compress
- support --texture-cache-dir command line option
- set max reported supported texture size during splashscreen.
This makes it possible to look up files from add-on directories using
for instance FGGlobals::resolve_resource_path(), passing a string such
as "[addon=ADDON_ID]relative/path" as explained in the previous commit.
Code and tests to demonstrate migrating of older auto-save files, with
blacklisting support to exclude properties. Disabled pending agreement
on the required blacklisting values.
We probably need a warning for cross-aircraft paths, but leaving that
for a separate change since I’m worried it will warn on MP aircraft.
Maybe better checked in the Python scripts than in the app?
Compile a useful subset of FG as a shared library, and add two basic
uses of this to exercise some Flightplan / RoutePath / navaid
functions.
The test framework can/will be expanded incrementally from here, this
is just a starting point.
Make a single Cmake value to expose the build type to code, and use
this to default a run-time ‘developer-mode’ property, which can be
over-ridden from the command line.
Use this to drive the different warning levels. Policies subject to
review, especially whether nightly builds should default to
developer mode or not.
Apart from providing a public method giving a path to the autosave file,
the main idea of this commit is to reduce redundancy where
globals->get_fg_home() was so far used in every place where the autosave
file is needed or saved. Use an optional argument for
FGGlobals::loadUserSettings() and FGGlobals::saveUserSettings()[1],
since it should be exceptional to access an autosave file in another
location than $FG_HOME.
Also add comments explaining how to avoid security pitfalls with
saveUserSettings() (cf. discussion around
<https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/35461636/>).
[1] Argument *added* to this method, for consistency with
FGGlobals::loadUserSettings().
Similar to the existing FGGlobals::get/set_terrasync_dir(), add
FGGlobals::get_download_dir() and FGGlobals::set_download_dir() methods,
and of course the corresponding FGGlobals::download_dir public member
variable. FGGlobals::set_download_dir() stores the realpath() of the
given directory, including into the /sim/paths/download-dir property,
which is marked as read-only just as /sim/terrasync/scenery-dir already
is.
Handle the setup of the TerraSync and download dirs all in the same
place (Options::processOptions()), since most of the work is already
done there. This allows one to get rid of fgOptTerrasyncDir() and
fgOptDownloadDir(), and to make it easier to see that
globals->set_terrasync_dir() (resp. globals->set_download_dir()) is
called on the correct SGPath, regardless of whether --terrasync-dir
(resp. --download-dir) was passed.
Always create the TerraSync and download dirs when they don't already
exist, regardless of whether --terrasync-dir or --download-dir has been
given on the command line.
Add comments explaining how to avoid security pitfalls with download and
TerraSync dirs (cf. discussion around
<https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/35461636/>).
Adjust indentation where it was too broken, hampering readbility.
Remove uses of .str(), .c_str() and some other methods of SGPath.
Pass SGPath directly where possible, or explicitly convert to the
appropriate 8-bit encoding.